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Always Show Images in Thunderbird

If you are a thunderbird user, then you might have noticed that thunderbird won’t load images automatically unless you add that send email address to your contact details. But adding sender address again and again is really not a good idea, moreover if you receive a lot of mails from new sender then this is not a good option.

Thunderbird-Show Remote Content

If you got any email in html format or if it contain any image on that mail, it shows broken images and displays pop up message saying

To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message.

Always load remote content from news@sender.com

and a button named Show Remote Content.

We can load images by two ways here. One temporary method and another one is the permanent method.

If we click Show Remote Content button, then images load only on this mail, and it won’t load any image on upcoming mails.

If we want to load images automatically from this sender on all upcoming mail as well, then add the sender email address to your contact details by clicking “Always load remote content from sender@domain.com”.

What if you want to load images or remote content automatically on all mails without actually adding sender mail address to your contact details or without clicking Show Remote Content button? There is a way for that to achieve it.

Before explaining that process, let us know why thunderbird won’t allow to load images automatically on mails.

Thunderbird disabled loading images intentionally, because when any user opened any mails the sender can get where this email is opened, when it is opened and few other details if he is using tracking in that mail. The sender can get all those details only when you load that images. For this purpose Thunderbird don’t load images automatically for all mails that you receive.

If you care about your privacy, then think before enabling auto load images or always show remote content feature in thunderbird email client. If not, then go a head.

Also Read: Gmail Soon Display All Images Directly

Enable Thunderbird to Load Images or Show Remote Content Automatically:

I’m using the latest version of Thunderbird, that is Version 24.2.0 in this tutorial.

1. Open your Thunderbird email client. On the right side you see Thunderbird Menu, click on it. There you get Options… choose that

2. Once you choose Options… again you will get Options… choose that as well

3.  Now we are in thunderbird option window. Here you choose Advanced >> General >> Config Editor…

4. You will get about:config warning window, just click on I’ll be careful, I promise! button

5. Now in about:config search box, search for mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image entry. Once you got the result just double click on it anywhere on that result. You will see Status value changed from Default to user set and Value true to false.

Once you changed that value close the window and click OK button.

Now all the mail that you receive on your thunderbird will automatically load remote content or images without showing any warning or pop up message.

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